Tatiana Zagorac is 25, signed to a publishing company and next week will bring electronic dance music (EDM) to the Shotz Family Sports Lounge.

Performing under the name Talltale, she is the latest musician to headline a performance in the inaugural season of the Hot Shotz Music Series that began in October. Zagorac has been performing professionally for three-and-a-half years. She has always loved music and cannot really recall a specific moment or time when it first entered her life.

“I did not grow up in a musical family,” she said. “I have always listened to pop music and at a young age I was writing melodies and lyrics. Of course, instruments came later and really it has been something I always enjoyed.”

An education at MacEwan University in drums and composition followed.

After this, Zagorac got signed to a production company with connections in Japan, and, in contrast to the cliché of the “starving artist”, has been able to earn a living writing music for artists in the country. She did not think this was possible at first — as she writes in English — but enjoys the process.

“I conversationally speak [Japanese] but do not work in it,” Zagorac said. “If people like how something sounds, it is purchased and then is translated and localized into the language of whatever country buys it. It is exciting.”

And through this employer, her latest content came to be. While travelling in Japan, Zagorac created what became the first song of her new EP. This piece, dubbed “Tokyo”, is being promoted and will be shown at her show on Jan. 18 alongside Laur Elle and X62 of Edmonton. For Zagorac, this will be the last chance for the public to see her work in advance of its future release.

“It is coming out in the spring and this is the time to hear it,” she said. “This is a record based around themes of travel and reflection. I think people can look forward to hearing my live set which involves electronic drums and singing, it is very different than anything else in Edmonton’s music scene.”

And, if all goes well, she will get to show off the final product on a large-scale tour. Including some stops in Europe and even support from the CBC.

“I have got my fingers crosses,” Zagorac said. “Hopefully, not all things are a 100 per cent nailed down. I will support the record and see what opportunities it brings.”

Zagorac and opening acts Laur Elle and X62 will be performing at the Shotz Family Sports Lounge in Spruce Grove next Friday at 7 p.m. Tickets can be purchased online or at the venue.